Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
And, he that voucheth for me is on high. My friends are, they who scorn me, Unto GOD, hath mine eye shed tears: -
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Holman Bible
as I weep before God.
International Standard Version
My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God,
A Conservative Version
My friends scoff at me. My eye pours out tears to God
American Standard Version
My friends scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
Amplified
“My friends are scoffers [who ridicule];
My eye pours out tears to God.
Bible in Basic English
My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
Darby Translation
My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God.
Julia Smith Translation
My friends mocking me: to God mine eye wept.
King James 2000
My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears unto God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
Modern King James verseion
My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My friends laugh me to scorn, but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
NET Bible
My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
New Heart English Bible
My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
Webster
My friends scorn me: but my eye poureth out tears to God.
World English Bible
My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
Youngs Literal Translation
My interpreter is my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:
Interlinear
Luwts
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 16:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Everything Was Going Well
19 Even now, lo! in the heavens, is my witness, 20 And, he that voucheth for me is on high. My friends are, they who scorn me, Unto GOD, hath mine eye shed tears: - 21 That one might plead, for a man, with GOD, - Even a son of man, for his friend!
Names
Cross References
Job 12:4-5
A laughing-stock to one's neighbour, do I become, one who hath called upon GOD and he hath answered him! A laughing-stock - a righteous man without blame!
Job 16:4
I also, like you, could speak, - If your soul were in the place of my soul, I could string together words against you, and could therewith shake over you my head.
Job 17:2
Verily there are mockers, with me! And, on their insults, mine eye doth rest.
Psalm 109:4
For my love, they have been accusing me, while, I, was at prayer:
Psalm 142:2
I pour out before him my complaint, My distress - before him, I tell.
Hosea 12:4-5
Yea he strove against a Messenger, and prevailed, he wept, and made supplication unto him, - At Bethel, he found him, and, there, he spake with us;
Luke 6:11-12
But, they, were filled with folly, and began conversing one with another, as to, what they might do with Jesus.
Hebrews 5:7
Who, in the days of his flesh, having offered up, both supplications and entreaties unto him that was able to save him out of death, with mighty outcries and tears, and been hearkened to by reason of his devoutness,